Abraham Maslow is known for establishing the theory of hierarchy of needs, writing that human beings are being motivated by unsatisfied needs and that certain lower needs need to be satisfied before higher needs can be satisfied
Maslows Hierarchy of Needs
BIOGRAPHY
Abraham Harold Maslow was born on 1st April 1908 in Brooklyn, New York. He was the first of seven children born to his parents, Jewish immigrants from Russia. His parents hopes for the best for their children and pushed Maslow harder for academic success. Not surprisingly, he became very lonely as a boy and found his refuge in books. In line with his parents’ wishes, Abraham Maslow began to study law at the City College of New York. Then he transferred to Wisconsin and became fascinated by psychology and his school work began to improve dramatically. Maslow did not graduate in law but awarded junior and senior degrees of PhD level in psychology by the University of Wisconsin between 1930 and 1934.He began teaching full time at Brooklyn College and became a full professor in Psychology. In 1951, he served as the chair of the Psychology department at Brandeis and began his own theoretical work. Then he began his crusade for a humanistic psychology. In 1968 he was elected president of the American Psychological Association. Maslow played a key role in the development of modern humanistic psychology. He developed a view that people are successively motivated by the claims of hierarchy of needs. His theory was a strong catalyst for the founding of humanistic psychology. He is considered as an important figure in contemporary psychology. He also wrote two important books: Towards a Psychology of Being (1968), and Motivation and Personality (1970). In later life, Maslow was plagued by ill health and withdrew from full time teaching. He died of a heart attack on June 8,1970.
